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Nothing interesting whatsoever except for the Airship construction pieces. That's curious...

Do you think so? As much as the playerbase seems to be about doing everything as quickly and efficiently as possible, I doubt it.

If they respawn every 5 seconds, it won't even matter. I highly doubt they'll get killed other than for bills.

Honestly my guess is that they are right back to what they used to be before SE buffed them awhile back.

So one B per person per week for 50 seals, that is soloable and respawns every 5 seconds, and each person's is different. Not bad. That is equivalent to 10 B ranks as it was before, I wont miss it much as I generally did not run B ranks. I will miss the 30 myth from each B rank however. Still, should thin out the people hunting A's since people wont be as forced to show up.

Also every day you get some normal targets that give 4 each instead of 1, and the fate targets give 10 each instead of 2. And from my understanding certain fates spwan faster now.

So they pulled the B's away from dedicated PS4 / high end PC hunters, who werent all that interested in them to begin with, and gave it to the PS3 and low end pc players who were frustrated that they couldnt see the enemies of get to them before google chrome or Asuna Yu'ki pulled.

Overall, not bad. Smart PR.


Edited, Aug 19th 2014 9:49am by Valkayree

Thanks for posting this, i was looking for these yesterday, a little later than normal getting them out.

Unless the horde has no motivation to hunt it. That is the key here. Post 2.35, if it is not your weekly hunt elite mark, you will get absolutely no benefit for killing it, and it respawns in 5 seconds.

Edited, Aug 19th 2014 9:52am by Valkayree

That's the idea.

Although it'll make me sound like a party pooper, the Dev. Team basically forcing people to properly meet iLvl requirements for dungeons and raids instead of coasting under the mark by swapping gear to spiritbond once they're in pleases me.

That said, I am a little confused about the wording of this part here, which is in reference to bonding gear that is Item Level 70 or higher:



The 'probability' will now vary? Prior to 2.35, the 'probability' of a Grade IV materia coming from anything 70 and above was 100%. The wording has me worried that now even i70 isn't a 100% surefire Grade IV, which considering that the only convertible gear beyond that is the i90 Saurian/Wolfram/Cashmere stuff, and those can take weeks to bond unless you're quad-melding/quintuple-melding them ... thaaat's not good.

Not unless they intend to drastically raise the speed at which i90 gear bonds in Expert dungeons, FCoB Raids, and ST. But even then with the high odds of 'meh' materia (Elementals, Stats), throwing 500-1000 Mythology at every piece you want to make for bonding (or 1500 with accessories) seems a steep price for the materia lotto, even with Myth flowing much more readily these days.

Edited, Aug 19th 2014 3:36pm by Satisiun

A challenge!

Actually you are right, the early response has been pretty positive on lamia. Seems as if the common practice is to shout out a B if you see it (in area shout, not linkshell) and whoever needs it runs over. Mine was sewer syrup, and just as expected it popped up at 8,5. But I didnt personally find it, a nice person in area shout gave me its location. I ran over and soloed it on my black mage with chocobo. Was pretty challenging, had to pop a few heals, but I made it.

Coming back to confirm my fears in my previous post. They have indeed made it so i70 gear is no longer a lock to get Grade IV materia. Me and a friend used some gear we meant to use before 2.35 but didn't get around to until today.

I'm actually pretty disappointed on a personal level. I made gear to bond in dungeons, but I never, ever went anywhere with gear that didn't meet the Item Level requirements. TTD HM? SV HM? Always the Darksteel and Gryphonskin stuff, never trying to sneak in some sub-par i49 accessories or crap. Slower bonding? Maybe, but I at least knew I wasn't both hoping for a rare Grade IV, and even rarer Grade IV I actually needed.

That and my scruples dictated I at least keep myself gear-capable for what I do.

I'm already seeing some bad effects that making i70 gear convert half the time (or more) in to Grade III materia is having, on top of making i45-55 stuff meld faster in stuff like Castrum or Praetorium or out at Urth's Gift. Savage Aim IV and Savage Might IV? Prices are rocketing north, while the market for Tier III has plummeted, and hard, due to both scarcity and a glut to each tier respectively.

tl;dr - whine whine, **** *****, I had to finish my Novus by going from 4.5 million to 500k gil since actually spiritbonding to get IV materia now seems unbearable, and that makes me as angry as a Gaius at a Primal convention or something.

Edited, Aug 20th 2014 11:03pm by Satisiun